Hundreds of letters addressed to God delivered to Israel’s Western Wall
Ever felt your prayers went unanswered? Try sending a letter to God and chances are it will end up — as many do each year — at an Israeli post office in Jerusalem, where they are read and sent on to the holy Western Wall.
The letters come from all over the world in a host of languages. The elderly ask for good health. Others seek heavenly remedies for debts, relationship assistance, or help finding jobs. Children mainly ask God to spring them from homework assignments. The trickle of requests turns into a flood around Christmas and the Jewish holidays.
One writer asked God to answer a friend’s prayers, and in a postscript gives the friend’s address, adding, “But you knew that.”
